Early Democratic Voting EXPLODING in Ohio and IOWA

[FourScore]

Early Democratic Voting EXPLODING in Ohio and IOWA
by lanae
Thu Oct 14, 2010 at 03:48:55 PM PDT

According to this article, the Democrats in Iowa and Ohio are on track to set a record in early voting. This fantasy about the democrats not being enthusiastic is pure HOGWASH!

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/michael-p-mcdonald/early-voting-off-to-a-fas_b_763074.html

2010 Early Voting

http://elections.gmu.edu/early_vote_2010.html

Early voting has started! Statistics are now reported for Iowa, Maine, North Carolina, Virginia, and some counties in Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. I am aware that some Florida counties are reporting mail ballot statistics on their webpages, but I am happy to report a helpful statewide campaign has offered to provide vote-by-mail stats soon.

These are very early numbers, and no conclusions may be drawn yet as to what these numbers mean for the 2010 elections. However, there are some tantalizing tidbits.

Someone forgot to tell Democrats that they are not enthusiastic. Early voting in Cuyahoga and Franklin counties in Ohio is on track to set a record for a midterm election. If turnout in 2010 is the same as 2006, over 10% of voters have already cast their ballot.

I spoke with local election officials in these counties to confirm that these numbers are indeed accurate. Election officials in both counties sent an absentee ballot request form to all their registered voters, and as a consequence, they expect upwards of 50% of votes will be cast early in Ohio. Breaking is that now-available Iowa statistics tell a similar story: Democratic registrants are voting early in heavy numbers. Turnout could be higher than normal as a consequence, since early voting typically picks up as the election nears. To see these sorts of numbers so soon in the early voting period is remarkable.

Elsewhere, Republicans are out to an early lead in North Carolina and Democrats holding near even with Republicans in Maine.

More statistics will be posted as they become available. Tips to early voting statistics are most welcome, especially for those posted by local election offices.

Someone also forgot to tell democrats they weren't enthusiastic in IOWA also

119,430 early voters in Iowa are 42% of registered Democrats compared with 29% registered as Republican.

The point of this diary is to show everyone that this so called enthusiasm gap is BULLSHIT! I am in Georgia and I voted last week and the line was out the door. EVERYBODY I ask said they were voting DEMOCRAT so we can't believe this crap about the democrats won't vote. Keep calling, keep knocking on doors and keep believing that we will keep the house and senate.

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2010/10/14/910441/-Early-Democratic-Voting-EXPLODING-in-Ohio-and-IOWA

[ClarkUSA]

1. That's OFA strategy. This is how Obama08 won the presidency.

We're been doing GOTV for months now with that goal in mind.

Thanks for the good news. :thumbsup:

:kick:

[mmonk]

2. More like panic.

The tea party should get any sane human being off their ass and vote. The only way I won't is if I'm kidnapped until election day passes.

[nadinbrzezinski]

9. Yep florina and the other are

Crazee

[applegrove]

3. I hope you are right.

[WingDinger]

4. It's a landline gap.

[BlueCheese]

5. I suppose one might wonder...

... if early voting numbers are up because early voting itself is getting more popular, or because we're going to have larger-than-expected turnout.

For example, I'd bet online shopping this Christmas is up over a few years ago, but total Christmas shopping might not change very much, or be lower.

Obviously, good turnout is good news, almost irrespective of anything else.

[hendo]

10. I would rather vote early than wait in a long line.

And I would think most Americans have a similar thought process.

[Quixote1818]

6. I rarely have voted in Midterm elections but Glenn Beck and the Tea Party have me motivated

beyond belief. Republicans may have shot them-self in the foot with the Tea Party and all these nuts that are making themselves the face of the Republican party. Sure hope so!

[rurallib]

7. I've spent hours and hours at our HQ in Iowa

We are a beehive from 9AM til - well now.
When we pass by the Republican HQ down the street on our way home, there is one little old lady sitting by herself looking out the window.

[flamingdem]

8. I feel better now, so glad people are paying attention nt

[dflprincess]

11. One doesn't have to be enthusiastic to vote

just able to grasp that a Republican Congress would be even worse than the one we have now.

I'm voting a straight DFL ticket but the only one on the ticket I have any trace of enthusiasm for is Mark Dayton.

[the redcoat]

12. I love how we have to be

The mommy and daddy for the tea party. We all have to vote to protect them from themselves.

Just like with little kids, we must allow them to run around the playground screaming. They forget we're there, but the whole time we're silently keeping an eye on them, smirking and saying "Oh, a child's imagination is marvelous." And like parents, we're going to have to let them run around, but we have to eventually say "Ok, daddy's tired, let's go home." before they hurt themselves on the jungle gym.

[Ganja Ninja]

24. You've noticed that too.

We can't get our own party to get over their fear and act like Democrats but we have to go out and vote to protect the country from the FOX News zombies. I really wish we could just let them hang themselves without suffering along with them.

[petersjo02]

13. Ballots from our house (in Iowa)

will be in the mail tomorrow.

[lonestarnot]

14. K & R!

:applause:

[Quixote1818]

15. kick

[K8-EEE]

16. Wait didn't they hear about the "enthusiasm gap?"

It's all over the tee-vee....none of us are going to vote! :sarcasm:

[ChoppinBroccoli]

17. I Did My Part

I live in Franklin County (Columbus) Ohio, and I filled out and mailed my absentee ballot the day after I got it.

Yeah, for as much as we've been hearing about the inevitable Republican blowout, all I keep seeing are Democrats leading most races. Here in Ohio, Ted Strickland has actually taken about a 4-point lead in the Governor's race (after some polls said he'd lose by about 20 points just a couple months ago). Now, for some reason, Bush's Budget Director is leading Lee Fisher HUGE in the race for the Senate, but that's really the only race that seems to be clearly in the Republicans' favor right now.

[Enthusiast]

18. The Republicans

will just have to cheat. Just as they did before.

[Winterblues]

19. Vote by mail is the secret

They mailed out absentee ballots to everyone in those states, and they changed the law to make absentee voting much easier...Democrats need to wise up on this issue and advocate for it in every state...People can rationalize many reasons for not getting down to the voting booth on a given day but when you have the ballot for a full month, it suddenly becomes much easier to fill it out and let the mailman pick it up and be done with it.. No parking problems, no running into that person you have been avoiding for a while, no worries about voting intimidation at certain polling areas we have all heard about...It just makes it so much easier for everyone..

[felix_numinous]

20. K+R Now lets get to work!!

:kick: :headbang:

[Scurrilous]

21. K & R

:thumbsup:

[semillama]

22. I'm in Ohio and voted early.

My wife just sent in her application for an absentee ballot this week.

[old mark]

23. WOW! I expect to see THIS STORY on the MSM tonight!...or maybe not...

The GOP must have paid them a lot this time...they will telling us we lost till after we won.

mark

[Ikonoklast]

25. Me, in Ohio.

My oldest son, and his fiance.
My second oldest son, and his GF.
My daughter, and her BF.


All voted early in the Buckeye.


All Democratic, right down the line.


Lemme see...a teacher for abused kids, a nursing student, a public service employee, five out of six of them of them still college students, and me, the old fart.

These kids will never vote anything but Democratic as long as they live. They aren't stupid.

[diane in sf]

26. The dirty tricks Repugs did in the polling places in OH raised people's awareness

of the necessity of making sure they actually get to vote. The dirty tricks included, but weren't limited to: switching polling places, shorting machines in Dem neighborhoods, defective machines in these neighborhoods, intimidating repug thugs posted near polling places, flyers with the wrong voting days, flyers saying that police would be notified if people owing child support or having other problems showed up to vote, and the best of all, running all the Ohio election results through a privately owned server farm controlled by Associates of Karl Rove.

[Scurrilous]

27. Kick

:kick: